AWS IoT Device Defender is now available in 2 additional regions – EU (Paris) and EU (Stockholm), extending the footprint to 15 AWS regions. AWS IoT Device Defender is a fully-managed AWS IoT service that makes it easy for customers to manage the end to end security of their IoT fleet. 

AWS Training and Certification has re-launched the AWS Developer Series exclusively on edX. This digital series features three courses that help developers to continue building their skills to deepen their cloud expertise with AWS.  

You can now natively encrypt EBS volumes attached to an EMR cluster. Until now, customers used LUKS over EBS volumes to encrypt data. With the current release, customers can choose either LUKS or native EBS encryption.  

The Amplify Framework is an open-source project for building cloud-enabled mobile and web applications.  

Amazon EC2 Fleet simplifies the provisioning of Amazon EC2 capacity across different Amazon EC2 instance types, Availability Zones, and On-Demand, Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances (RI) and Amazon EC2 Spot purchase models. With a single API call, you can provision capacity across EC2 instance types and purchase models to achieve desired scale, performance, and cost.

Starting today, Amazon EC2 c5.12xlarge, c5.24xlarge, and c5.metal instance sizes are available in the AWS US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), Canada (Central), and Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Tokyo) Regions. The 3 new C5 instance sizes are powered by custom 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (based on the Cascade Lake architecture) with sustained all-core turbo frequency of 3.6 GHz and maximum single core turbo frequency of 3.9 GHz. 

Amazon EC2 Fleet simplifies the provisioning of EC2 capacity across different instance types, Availability Zones (AZs), and purchase options to optimize for scale, performance, and cost. Allocation strategies let you determine how EC2 Fleet should select from the instance types and AZs you have specified to fulfill the desired capacity.

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) message filtering now supports attribute key matching. This feature lets you create an Amazon SNS subscription filter policy that matches incoming messages which contain an attribute key, regardless of the attribute value associated with this key. This feature lets you offload additional message filtering logic to Amazon SNS.

AWS Health is now available in AWS GovCloud (US). AWS Health includes the AWS Personal Health Dashboard (PHD) and the AWS Health API. These tools give you awareness and remediation guidance for resource performance or availability issues that affect your applications running on AWS.

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports the July 2019 Patch Set Updates (PSU) for Oracle Database 11.2 and 12.1, and July 2019 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database 12.2.